Chapter 3: Setting, Roles, and Functions Flashcards
What is Home Health Nursing?
Work in various roles and settings. they primarily work with individual client and family providing direct and indirect care.
What is a Hospice Palliative Care Nursing?
Coordinated Program of holistic palliative care services delivered to terminally ill clients and their families.
- Emphasize caring and comfort over curing
What is Public Health Nursing?
The result of collective action by society to ensure that existing conditions facilitate health in all persons in a community.
- frequently work with aggregates and communities/population as their client
What are the 5 functions of PHN?
- health promotion
- health protection
- health assessment
- public health surveillance
- injury and disease prevention
What is School Nursing?
a branch of PHN that seeks to identify or prevent school health problems and intervenes to remedy or reduce these problems.
- Use all three prevention strategies
What are some examples of primary prevention in School Nursing?
Immunizations, tobacco free school grounds, promotion of regular physical activity, promotion of healthy eating, prevention of diseases, sexual health
What are some examples of secondary prevention in School Nursing?
screenings, detection of allergies, detection of substance abuse problems, identification of learning disability, identification of mental health issues
What are some examples of tertiary prevention in School Nursing?
children requiring outgoing support are supplied with DSW, PSW, or RPN in the school depending on the health condition of the child
What is Disaster and Emergency Nursing?
- new emerging specialty under public health
- prepare, assess, and propose plans to effectively deal with a variety of disasters and responds when needed in an effort to protect the health and safety of citizens
What are the seven phases in Disaster and Emergency Nursing to manage major public disaster?
planning, prevention, assessment, response, surveillance, recovery, and evaluation
What is Occupation Health Nursing?
Speciality of occupational health and safety.
- They include promotion, maintenance and restoration of health and prevention of illness and injury.
- prevent ill health from work related injury or illness and protect workers from existing or potential health and safety hazards at work
What is Parish Nursing?
Health and wellness needs of populations of faith communities and partners with the church in fulfilling the mission of health ministry. A wide variety of faith are represented.
- also called faith community nursing
What is Street or Outreach Nursing?
work with marginalized persons in urban centres that have difficultly accessing care
- homeless, substance abusers, mentally ill
What is Telenursing?
Use of technology for triaging, delivering nursing care, managing and coordination health care services using evidence-based standardized protocols
What is Forensic Nursing?
Clients treated and cared for include victims of sexual/physical assault, elder/child/domestic abuse, unexplained/accidental death, trauma
